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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1959.

THIRD MAN IN HONGKONG*

LEWIN, WELLEM, AND NED CHINESE PERRY-BOAT.

A top talent for talking...

I TAKE A DRIVE IN ·

A CADILLAC LONGÈR

THAN À BUS...... AND HEAR SOME IDEAS

ABOUT MONEY, THAT ARE EVEN BIGGER

EWIS

PART TWO

Behind the ebullience: Welles confesses

a lonely bitterness

by DAVID

LEWIN

WAB BITO There

a

fully

tim

The whole set, camera, sound, and lights, cost him £0,000, which wns all the money he had left siter starring in hla latest American

"Com pulsion."

Macao today is a pimple on the end of the Chinese main- lend. It save miles long and a low miles wide and relics for all of lis food and most of its water on supplies from Chine. And alace Portugal, which docs not recognise Peking the situation is tenuous.

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a mood of critical self-appraisal big and I'm tired of justifying in Orson Wells.

myself and tired of explaining We fal one afternoon. looking about myself and. I'd prefer to down at the fot sc as an qut

armada of fishing junks inched "I feel like a painter who, has their way home with the hot had his convas end his paints sun on their windless salta.

taken away from him. Then Orson Welles said: "Tra

If I were a painter-a I bored with acting in dims. I'm wanted to be at the beginning- Tot bad enough to be' cynical. about it or good enough to be I'd only have to worry about satisfied. I just work hard at 1 money for more paints. Now I eating and getting enough and I hate it. Bet for money and I direct for plansure and it have to worry about a million

and a half dollars to make could I'd give it all up.

movie.. "When I say that I don't

I'm no good of promoting mean as a dramatic gesture-

lumping out of

room money for myself. I meet the because I'm offended or culking backers and tell them all about what I am going to make and becau❤ you don't love me.

I look at it real stically. I what it will cost of their just can't get enough money to money and thea in a rare burst

of honesty Jeb-and, my job ja a

I say to them: do my maker of him a creator. When But, of course, you could lose a form to 11 in the lot' and that would be that, I'm asked my cecupation i don't put actor. I haven't got the self-assurrnce I just cut flims. I'm not an to guarantee "success.”

I have never believed 1 have accom- plished much in front of a

equipped Bim studio in the cen- tre of the living room.

Between playing the part of his suite at the the puffed-up "Singapore Cecil," has owned Macão for 400 years, actor except on stage.

the ferry-bost captain in the Ferry to Hongkong," Repulse Bay Hotel, Alm

Örson also worked on a new Hongkong, Orson Welles television series and wrote the recently gathered to- icript of a new film with

Chinese background, in which gether sufficient goods he will also appear as well as to stock a Chinese em- produce and direct, porium.

Bored

kamera.

tho

·

He waited

seldom talked before.

Look at Citizen Kane' (the

That is Orson Welles as he fim he made when he was 20 has world But and which gave him

soon he was cheering At onc time Macao was acclaim as a genius). One it up. "I get plenty of offers to called happily the "Monte Carlo not men just one man, the make Alms for other people,”

The only smag is that no far of the Far East" and gambling producer, had faith in thal. I he said. "Did you know I was

They include coloured there is no money for this latest lanterns, Ming dynasty Orson Welles venture.

out Nothing daunted, he set VASEH, Chinese wall scrolls, one week-end for Macan for lamp-atands made from some

double shooting: partly Abacus counters, jade for the TV series and partly fingering

(carved for his own new ploure. atones

He took with him his own and ridged and about two

esmern, and cound equipment which inches long,

the

bought in France and shipped Chinese turn over and over to Hongkong and his own light

and in their hunds to relieve ing system-more efficient

than anything seen tension or help give up anywhere else before-and just

modern smoking), jade ornaments, manufactured In Hollywood. some lifelike monkeys made These too he had sent out

him in Hongkong. from raffia.

Logan Gourlay

Around

Mull-millichaire Mr Datwiler

Lisbon. 2,000 crow and 8,000 passengers.

All one class at 22 10s. re- V (and not the inst) should

have said "No time." FRANKLIN turn."

LEDGAR DET

WILER V is what his fellow Americans would

Millions

tall a big talker. He I glanced up without inter-

is a Niagara of words rupting the flow of inlk at #

vista of grey, mediaeval castle

For every puff would mean a

word lust and inhaled.

Every rip a statistic swallowed.

A hangover

You

Europe

“A MAN OF MANY WORDS—THE TYCOON TALNER

to

is still a major industry.

But now there are no dinner jackets at the tibles, here; just a shuffling succession of mon and women-some with bables stirped to their backs-putting den their cents and hoping,

was left alone to make li-no

offered 'Bridge on the River one was allowed to see a foot of Kwal'? it until I had finished it

to "I thought I was all set completely.

So I sat tight in "Did my success' come too direct i

and walled for the seen with that? Would it have Rome been better for it to have come nishod script and did nothing Orgon Welles himself does at the end of a cater? I'm not for four months and then nol gamble. "I'm not exclied sorry. It came when it d'd....1 day I opened a newspaper and by, not just the chance of just wish it would come inore read that David Lean was off to Ceylon shoot the aim with he said. "1 olen. winning money,"

Alec Guinness

And that's talts chances In other ways-I stick my neck out in the art of

how I'didn't make 'Kwal

At least that im I didn't living,"

direct was a success while most

Maybe it was the sad decilne of Macao ("See that hotel-the plenesting in the rooms is the spittoon") that brought on

This

must pay import duly on new

Cars He says No.

Trunkload

wrote 'Citizen, Kane Alms I didn't make weren't."

The Welles spirit was bobbing today no one would read it

alone

It up again. Soon he was out on -ict

finance R.

streets in Macao in 0 would cost $2,500,030 today, and the

chusing а Chinese who is going to put up that peffcab

with its three gaily money for an original story and funeral

coloured bands and its banners an unknown cast?

"I've got 25 completed stories for his film.

ready to film-and I can't make TOMORROW:

any of them because who'll put

the money up? Why should

go on into sourness adding to

the

Mrs Jurgens prefers

number of scripts I can't to climb in bare feet. fim? The trunklerd gels too

-(London Ezpress Service).

If atom-bombers

were

heading

for New York..........

New York.

IVIL defence experts have completed their plan

CIV

for the complete evacuation of New York city in the event of an atomic attack being signalled. The city could be deserted within 72 hours of the order to evacuate being given.

Only military and civil patrols, to prevent looting, would remain.

The police are being briefed on how to put the evacua- They are still arguing. The Government "the benevolent tion plan into effect, and how to control crowds and traffic dictatorship," will win, of which would inevitably choke all main roads from the

city.

course.

A fight

I was talking to a Lisbon metador about the Portuguese bullfights in which the bull is not killed.

I asked him how the fights ended. He said simply: "Em beleza," Which means "In beauty."

The fact is that the bull is still killed after it has been sends a steelsentralthebring bleeding

"banderilla wounds. think I prefer the Spanish style. It's more honest. And perhaps |

more beautiful.

and statistics. Especially and green, mountains. statistics. He pours

"Each ship will cost about

Brict cconomic survey: And ench ship can buy a half-litre (about en them out loudly and 40,000,000,

will have four nightclubs, pints of good Portuguese wine... metallically, "like 'an

thesuire seating 1,200, a elnema for d., but next day a packet electronic brain that's is 800 The all from of pirine your hangover. New York to Lisbon and will cost about of. All imported out-of-control

Plymouth

items such as medicines and -tollet-upticles-arashensils.taxed, waved to passing The effect would be over- He

without The sworthy Portuguese New York. Here in leisure interrupting the flow of talk. gentlemen who sidle up to you The sitting Tery member, Mr I was introduced to a gentle- powering even in rushing donkey-riding peasant

"We'll bring more than 10,000 in narrow Lisbon side streets Gresham Cooke, had a majorly man called King Valance. ly Lisbon it is somewhat enger American tourists to will be offering cleansing cream in the last election of about ludicrous. At lunch the Europe every week.

-not Дlthy postcards.

10.000. But he is not glamorous Ho

was on American shoe and shapely. other day one of the guests "Our project includes plans Dircet income tax is very low, was reduced

to helpless to build new hotels, motels, and almost non-existent by our Mr laughter.

The Detwiler bellports-two-nere airports for standards.

Government, flowed on unabated. Mil- Felicopters, which we'll use for collects from indirect taxation my vote. ligns.

cu consumer goods which Billions. Trillions.

Pich' can afford to pay. Dollars. Pounds. Escudos.

So the locals say: "No taxes ter the rich, "I'm 61 and I've been talking talk.

the poor." all my life. I can talk extem-

"Right here in Estoril we ara But t poraneously for hours. talk. I'd like my son to do the hotel-casino in the world. It And the poor multitudinous. talk constructively. No small planning to build the biggest sane. He's 24. And at college," will have accommodation for

After lunch Mr Detwiler whisked me off on a sight accing tour in a large Cadillac "'s three-eighths of a fool longer than a London bus."

We drove up into the ple- turesque, ragged mountains be hind Lisbon and Estorit "We're 2,500ft. up now."

the short-trovel hauls."

He sniffed the aromatic air without interrupting the dow of

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800 people, an Olympics-size nightclub swimming pool, a sealing 1,500 where we'll stage

Lidq show. from Paris.

Mrs Clark did not ask for But the may get it.

manufacturer.

POLITICAL (898131) FOOT- NOTE: Today's column la not heavily political, is it? Yet I have been cut off four times while phoning it to London and It has takes me a total of 48 hours to get it over. Flad THE PORTUGUESE under phono connections perhaps, But their "benevolent dictator" I have been told here that all ONE of the leading Lis Salazar alif regard the are tapped. I shouldn't refer to journalists' phone conversations their Heavy taxes for bon restaurants prints a English as

oldest the "benevolent dictator" and English for allies. They still foster .. I think I'm being cut off

the

As in Sain the rich are few.

A candidate

have met a Socialist among "The whole thing will cost the retired capitalists and ex- about £5,000,000.”

kings of Estoril. Sho is Mrs

We were back where we had Anne Clark, prospective Socialist started in three hours, having candidate for Twickenham. seen all the sights... "It takes

menu in

tourists.

the items: "Tender loin' even play cricket. Hugo

I avoided two of English influences. They again.

~~(London Express Service), steak Queen Henry IV" Ribeiro, interior decorator and "Pineapple with and wicketkeeper, told me: kirach perfume."

"We don't take it до seriously as the English though." He added: "We have another religion."

A sanctuary

1.

preten-

Estoril, sanctuary of depoced She said: "I had been work- moncrchs and patient the ordinary tourist three days ing very hard on party affairs ders, is not what it was. There to see them.

and I came here for a holiday is only one ex-king now in We rolled through forests

Tourism. That's the answer with my father. I went to be residence Umberio of Italy. tingling with the scent of pine and eucalyptus through to Europe's economic troubles. in Oghting form for the eler-

the ten when it comas." valleys shining

repay Eunny That's minos blossom-"There must casional debts to America. You Let the tourists Bow in and bring the dollars."

with

how to

Mrs Clark, young

A wreck

Just along the coast from Estoril les the wreck of a Ho plans to stay. He is British ship. About two years building a new house next door age the angry Atlantic drove it divorcee, to his old one, which will be en to the rocks near the Mouth Socialists sold to a commoner at an un- of Hell, a gloomy, rugged rock most unusual

formation. candidates, common price. Certainly one of the most attractive and glamorous.

be at least 100 mimosa trees don't have to export anything; must be one of the

over there."

But it was ships that Mr Detwiler talked about mably. And tourism. And marey. He is president of a company which is planning to revolutionise the tourist and travel business.

'No 'time'

Don Juan is still here waiting. for his call to the Spanish

• She was at one time a small- throne. part Alm actress

ahe and

Mme. Lupescu lives quietly Ho got out of the Cadillac and turned down the offer of a #trodo nɛead- squat, squarish, Hallywood contract from Joe in hor villa near the ensina and trim figure, beginning to look Pasternak, the man who made pays weekly velled visits to the "First of all we're going to Uke a walking electronle brain. Deanna Durbin..

tomb cf ex-King Caml in Lis- bulld four 100,000-ton súper

bon Trans-Atlantic liners. They'll

"Come on, let's have rome In Twickenham, wh'ch

ba 1.300ft. long. Biggest ever. ten, I-ever drink alcohol. And, Phirana to be my..own consti In the loading hotal, which Floating towns. They'll carry i don't smoke. No inclination." tuency, she faces heavy odds, of course is called The Falace,

beet The wreck has just bought by an enterprising local basiness men. He has salvaged come of the cargo about A dozen British motor-cars. They stand rusty and dejected by the side of the road. :

Ito plans to renovate thery and sell them as nearly naw,

· Governanent, "says he' But the

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"You see, Canon, I do fest that if I give up Martinis før Lent and my husband dowsn't," E shult almost certainly fall into the sin

· spiritwal prkits.”

London Express Berrios,

All cars would be commandeered and no car would be allowed to leave with fewer than four occupants.

Koop moving

Any cara breaking down would be ruthlessly pushed aside to keep the flow of traffle moving freely.

Robert Mulrean, director of New York's Civil De- fence Agency said that professional and business people would be briefed shortly on the plan,

"Almost everyone would have a roof over his head," said Mr Muirean. "Property owners in three states-m Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and upper New York State- have agreed to help if war comes."

---(Landon Express Service).

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